Daniel B. Dyer letters from an automobile trip, 1910 August-September.

1 item (14 p.) ; 17 cm

English

In English.

Purchased from Buckingham Books on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2015.

This material is open for research.

Daniel B. Dyer served as a colonel in the United States Army from 1862 to 1864 and worked as an Indian agent in Kansas beginning in 1869. He traveled from Kansas City, Missouri to other areas of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma in 1910.

Typescript copy of a series of letters by Daniel B. Dyer written during a trip from Kansas City, Missouri to other areas of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma in 1910. Dyer describes the landscape, farmland, buildings, and Native Americans encountered during his trip. He also compares the trip to a similar excursion he took in approximately 1870. Accompanied by a typescript biographical sketch of Dyer by an unidentified author describing Dyer's life, particularly his work as an Indian agent in Kansas.

February 10, 2016

Daniel B. Dyer Letters from an Automobile Trip. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Daniel B. Dyer Letters from an Automobile Trip. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Diaries - United States - 20th century.

Indian agents Kansas 19th century.